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Bottom of the Bag Chicken Recipe

June 23, 2011 By Joi Sigers

I’m adding a new category to the food blog called Eating on a Shoestring.  The economy pretty much insists that we cut back a little in different areas of our life, but culinary compromises usually aren’t very appetizing.  Or healthy.  I was inspired to create this category and try to focus a lot on economical meals and dining by a great cookbook I was sent to review, Eating Well on a Budget (click the link for my review).

Since this great cookbook inspired the category, I thought it only appropriate to get things rolling with a recipe from its pages.   This one’s from page 195 – just one of the many, many delicious, nutritious, and budget-friendly recipes in the book.

Here it is exactly as it appears in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Well on a Budget by Lucy Beale and Jessica Partridge.

Bottom of the Bag Chicken

Stop throwing away the crumbs at the bottom of a bag of whole-grain chips or crackers.  Turn them into a crunchy coating for oven-baked chicken strips.  Store crumbs in an airtight container until ready to use so they do not become stale.

1 lb. chicken breasts
1/2 cup crushed whole-grain chips or crackers
1 egg, beaten

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Rinse chicken breasts and cut into long 1-inch-wide strips. Set aside
  2. In a large bowl, crush chips or crackers. In a small bowl, beat egg.  Dip each chicken strip into egg and then into chip mixture.  Coat each piece well and place on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper.
  3. Bake 15 minutes until crispy.  Cool slightly before serving.

Variation: Use white fish or salmon in place of the chicken.  Different chips and crackers produce amazingly different tastes.  Try flavors such as real Cheddar, sea salt, and vinegar coarse stone-ground wheat, or crunchy corn.

Tasty Tidbits: Serve chicken fingers with several different sauces to add variety to your meals.  Try honey mustard, salsa, or for a buffalo wing flavor, serve with sour cream and hot sauce.

Yield: 16 chicken strips (serves 8)

Each serving has only 135 calories and 89 mg sodium

Order The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Eating Well on a Budget by Lucy Beale and Jessica Partridge on Amazon.

Filed Under: Calorie Counters, Chicken Recipes, Food Blog, Health and Fitness Tagged With: chicken recipes, eat well for less, eating on a budget, spend less on groceries

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